Inground Swimming Pool Design and Installation

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From innovative and personalized designs tailored to your backyard, to the finest expert care, maintenance and accessories, Your Pool Pal LLC has earned the trust and praise of Southern New Hampshire residents.

Our team at Your Pool Pal brings their uncompromising standards of excellence and dedication to designing every in-ground home pool. Their experts can customize shapes, contours, depths and designs to accommodate almost any space or desire, with each installation uniquely created by our experienced team.

Make your dream of sparkling waters and stylish patios come to life with the help of our designer, who will work directly with you to create an ideal backyard oasis, complete with all accessories and required safety features. We will take the time to understand your wants and needs, and craft a blueprint based on your individual space.

Our painstaking attention to detail and years of experience as Southern New Hampshire’s premier pool installation and design experts has earned Your Pool Pal the praise of countless homeowners. See the quality of our work for yourself! Explore the images below to get a sense of the installation process and important points to consider when adding a pool to your family’s fun, You can contact us today if you have questions that need answers, or to schedule a personal consultation at your home.

Framework for the sundeck, steps and bench area

A better angle of the entertainment and play area.

This will become a Beautiful sundeck. An area to stretch out and relax in the sun while keeping your body cool & wet with only a few inches of water covering you.

Sundeck with wedding cake steps will provide easy access in and out of you pool.

Shallow end play area, with Sundeck, wedding cake steps and side bench for total relaxation!

A close look to show you how the steps and beach join together.

The pool floor is finished by hand using hand mixed on site mortar. this will produce a hard bottom/pool floor, the best in the industry. Sure it’s more work, but it will outlast & outperform any other floor.

I like to install a 1/4″ closed cell foam pad over the steel and floor in the shallow area of the pool.

The foam padding will help insulate the pool and protect the liner.

By insulating the pool, you pool will become warmer and use less energy lowering heating cost.

The foam also becomes a membrane between the liner and steel. as the steel expands & contracts year after year the is less stress or tension on the pool liner.

By removing the stress or tension on the pool liner it will help to get the maximum life expectancy.

A top view just before the pool liner will be installed.

The custom pool liner is overlaid perfectly onto the steel features.

The liner must fit perfectly before any pool water can be added.

And there it is, The liner is a perfect fit.

Above & below are some easy to follow photos. I would like to point out that this pool is built and designed to receive a Cantilever Paver patio. It’s extremely important to determine the patio type before building the swimming pool. This will ensure the pool and patio will work good together without problems. Please look at the pavers edge of the pool above (zoom in close) Can you see the mortared joints between each paver?. This is real mason work, You get real craftsmanship that is rarely found these days among other pool contractors.

Leveling and squaring the pool.

A few adjustments to make things perfect.

A concrete collar has been poured completely around the top edge of the pool. locking it into place. The pool will not move.

This collar consist of an average depth of 18″ and about 12″ wide. This will lock the top of the pool and provide a good solid structural base that wont settle, it will support the cantilever pavor blocks

Because this pool above is built to have a Cantilever Paver edge and paver patio installed on it, It’s important not to install any deck bracing on the pool.#1. After the pool has been leveled and squared a concrete footing is poured around the entire pool at the base (Not shown) and about 6″ up the wall from the bottom to lock the pool in place. #2. The material used to back-fill the pool must be free of any clay and oganic matter having good drainage. #3. the suitable back-fill material (Clean sand) must be placed in 12″ or less lifts leveled out then compacted. #4. the last lift used should be 3/4″ processed gravel, an 8″ lift compacted down to about 6″ using water.This will provide a firm suitable area to put the pavers down. #5. The pool will need to be locked in at the top using concrete. This will provide strength at the top of the pool and provision to attached the Cantilever Pavers to the edge of the pool. After the pool had been back filled, a trench about 12″ out and 18″ deep was excavated a form was placed and concrete was poured into the form locking in the entire pool.

The photo’s below are actual picture I’ve taken from pools that have been built here in NH. I am using these photo’s so you will have examples of pools built by other contractors who did not take measures to insure the pool would have a long life.

Deck braces are important and a must if the pool will have a one piece concrete patio.This Photo is to show you the correct way to build a pool if that pool is going to have a one piece patio. If you don’t do this your pool can end up looking like the pools to the right.

This pool is 9 years old and is located in Derry it was built without any deck bracing to support the patio or tie the top of the pool in. I wont mention customers name or company who built the family pool.

This is what can happen if your builder doesn’t use deck bracing on your pool or in the skimmer area.

The frost is pushing the walls into the pool. Once the patio drops behind the wall, the pool will cave in.

Poor quality skimmer screws . That is why they rusted and will cause leakage.

You can easily see large cracks everywhere around this pool. The Owner didn’t get such a good deal and the and savings was not a bargain.

You see in this photo the patio has settled and craked The pool has no deck bracing or other form of support to tie the pool back and lock the patio in. Without Deck Bracing this happens here in NH.

This pool has 8″ poured concrete walls but has nothing to support the patio. That is why the patio has dropped, cracked and pulled away from the pool.

Here you can see the shifting taking place. This will happen on about any pool over time that does not have a good footing, good compaction using structural material and a way to support the patio. This can be prevented.

You can see how much the pool has moved away from the patio and the patio has dropped over time. If the builder would have used something to support the patio, such as 8″ sauna tubes every 4′ this might not have occurred.

When the patio Dropped it destroyed the skimmer and damaged the underground plumbing.

Are you seeing how important deck braces are? And to make thing worse the contractor didn’t use any rebar to reinforce the pool patio.

For about $2,000.00, more money this pool could have had deck bracing installed on it. It would have prevented damage.

A Look inside the skimmer reveals damage. Beware of pool companies offering to build you a pool for a low price because ther is no cheep way out of it!

Believe it or not!, this pool should have lasted 30-40 years. The builder should have used deck braces, compacted structural fill and either rebar or heavy gauge wire mesh in the patio.

This pool is only 6 or 7 years old. It looks like a pool from hell and is in need of thousands of dollars in repairs.

above: The photo’s show you pools that are damaged because they were built without deck braces to accommodate a one piece concrete patio. Deck bracing is needed for several reasons. 1st, because we live in a freeze thaw climate. 2nd to support the pool patio and help keep it from cracking do to frost heave, settling or other movement. 3rd it will prevent walls from caving in from the pressure of the frost during the winter. (it holds the top of the pool wall in place. There’s more to it, I will tell you all about it when we meet.

This is what the pool looks like after is has been completed

Your Pool Pal compacts around the pool in 12″ layers.

This show’s “A”frame bracing, 1 1/2” return plumbing coming out from a return fitting then going strait down below the frost line where it is locked into the concrete footing.

This shows the pool wall with with deck bracing next to the wide mouth skimmer. The skimmer is plumbed with 2″ Sch. #40 PVC, the plumbing goes straight down below the frost line and is locked into concrete. When everything is tied together, locked into concrete the pool becomes one piece and will not move come frost or high water.

Above: 2″ plumbing doubles water flow. All plumbing straight down locked into concrete below frost line. No cutting or splicing of pipes. Entire Pool, Plumbing, Skimmer and Returns tide together as one unit, back-filled and compacted. Nothing moves, nothing breaks, nothing leaks. I Like it! I built it! Done Right!